Register Now

In order to be able to post messages on the German Shepherd Dog Forums forums, you must first register.
Please enter your desired user name, your email address and other required details in the form below.

User Name:

Password

Please enter a password for your user account. Note that passwords are case-sensitive.

Password:

Confirm Password:

Email Address

Please enter a valid email address for yourself.

Email Address:

Log-in

User Name

Remember Me?

Password

Human Verification

In order to verify that you are a human and not a spam bot, please enter the answer into the following box below based on the instructions contained in the graphic.

Additional Options

Miscellaneous Options

Automatically parse links in text

Automatically embed media (requires automatic parsing of links in text to be on).

Automatically retrieve titles from external links

Topic Review (Newest First)

03-04-2014 09:09 PM

onyx'girl

Vitamin E should be supplemented every few days when you give fish oil. E is depleted(fat stored) with the Omega supplement. I feed raw so give e every now and then, but most organ meat, eggs contain E naturally so I seldom give it. And it should be with mixed trochepherols.
I do give Natural C as I have a dog with allergies and C helps support the immune system and acts as a natural antihistamine. C isn't stored, but flushed so can be given daily. I'd rather give vitamins in whole foods but now and then it is hard to do...

03-04-2014 09:00 PM

Susan_GSD_mom

I started my two on fish oil because the female I acquired last December began itching as soon as I got her almost. She came from living in a kennel into our house with forced air heating, dry even though we run a humidifier. I put them both on fish oil capsules, and she does itch less, but his coat is absolutely beautiful, the best I've seen him in the year I've had him. Yes, he shed much earlier than I would have thought, and I am wondering whether he will shed again when Spring is actually here.

Question--I read on this forum a while back that if you are giving fish oil, they should also have vitamin C. Can anyone explain why? Thanks!

03-04-2014 08:50 PM

onyx'girl

This Winter has been the worst(thickest coats on my dogs yet) Onyx for some reason blew her coat a few weeks ago, I was getting tufts out of her like never before. The other two haven't started yet but it will be a wild one when they do.
I think Onyx's coat shed because she was on Prednisone for awhile in the late fall. I have no other explanation for it.
She still has more coat than she's ever had though~and it is still below 0 every night.

03-04-2014 08:32 PM

Ares105

I see. Ok. thank you! I can create other dogs with his fur. Lol. Isn't too bad now but it will be soon!